A doctors surgery in Islington Square, on the corner of Islington and Shaw Street, was once a safe haven for children provided by a pioneering Liverpool charity. The Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was formed on 19th April 1883. In a time of great social deprivation and hardship local banker Thomas Agnew […]
LITTLE MOTHER OF LIVERPOOL MEETS MUSSOLINI
A former school in West Derby is named after one of the most influential women Liverpool has ever seen. Margaret Beavan, the unmarried ‘little mother of Liverpool’ who became the city’s first female Lord Mayor in 1928, had an eventful year in office. However she did make a misjudgement of character when she called Mussolini […]
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